Famous Quotes

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

Edward Gibbon on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Edward Gibbon

• "I was never less alone than when by myself."

• "Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

• "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

• "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

• "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."